Focus on Fellows from page 45
Bob Lawless of the University of Illinois and Pamela Foohey of the University of Georgia joined Professor Deborah Thorne of the University of Idaho to publish Debt’ s Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy. The book, which is available from the University of California Press, uses the court records and surveys from eleven years of bankruptcy filers to portray what it means to live on the financial edge in the United States. It profiles bankruptcy filers across the types of debt they have and across different demographic groups. At the end of the book, the authors offer proposals for reforms, both large and small.
Gary W. Marsh just finished teaching a class on Complex Restructuring and Bankruptcy at Emory University School of Law. Gary has been an Adjunct Professor of Bankruptcy Law at Emory University School of Law for over 20 years and has been awarded a distinguished Adjunct Teaching Award from the law school.
Professor Samir Parikh wrote two articles published in The Cornell Law Review: The Alchemist’ s Inversion and Mass-Tort Trusts and the Faustian Bargain. His new article, Mass-Tort Voting Takes Center Stage, is forthcoming in the N. Y. U. Law Review. Professor Parikh is lead organizer for the N. Y. U. Law Review’ s 2026 symposium entitled Charting the Future of Litigation Finance, which will take place on April 17, 2026. Professor Parikh is also on the planning committee for the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judge’ s 2026 annual meeting.
Professor Christoph G. Paulus received an honorary doctorship from the Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki.
Nancy B. Rapoport, J. D. will receive the Commercial and Consumer Law Scholarship Award, Section on Commercial and Consumer Law, Association of American Law Schools( 2025) in January.
Mark Roe published two articles: Bankruptcy’ s Turn to Market Value, 92 U. Chi. L. Rev. 285( 2025)( with Michael Simkovic) and Absolute Priority, Relative Priority, and Valuation Uncertainty in Bankruptcy, 173 U. Pa. L. Rev. 389( 2025)( with Michael Simkovic).
Professor Steven L. Schwarcz was a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Sciences Po School of Law, Paris and recently testified to the International Organization of Securities Commissions( IOSCO) as part of a panel of“ distinguished academicians” on current perspectives on financial market risks. His recent and forthcoming articles include: Recharacterizing Contracts: The Sale-versus-Loan Problem of Receivables Financing, Bankruptcy’ s Redistributive Policies: Net Value or a“ Zero-Sum Game”?, Bankruptcy’ s Demise: The Flawed Safe Harbor, Physics Informs Law: Analyzing Legal Issues that Turn on the Scale of Observation, Money: A Functional Analysis, Regulating Financial Innovation: FinTech, Crypto-assets, DeFi, and Beyond, and The Legal Anomaly of Non-Recourse Financing.
46